Believe it or not, the Hundred Years War is still going on, but now it’s become a bit on-again-off-again. The Truce of Tours, agreed to in 1444, gave both sides the chance to take a breath and prepare for the future, whatever that might hold.
Time Period Covered: 1440-1448
Notable People: Charles VII of France, Henry VI of England, Philip the Good, Isabella of Portugal, Louis XI of France, Antoine de Chabannes, Thibaud de Neuchatel, Alienor de Poitiers
Notable Events/Developments: Truce of Tours, French Military reforms of the 1440s, Handover of Maine
France and England in 1444, at the outset of the truce of Tours. Thanks to EU IV for making maps set in 1444 so easy to find.
Sources
Philip the Good by Richard Vaughan
Charles VII by Malcolm Vale
The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet
The Hundred Years War: Triumph and Illusion by Jonathan Sumption
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France by Juliet Barker
Late Medieval France by Graeme Small
France at the end of the Hundred Years War by Malcolm Vale in The New Cambridge Medieval History Volume VII
The Good King: Rene of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe by Margaret L. Kekewich
Louis XI: The Universal Spider by Paul Murray Kendall
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Wars of the English in France During the Reign of Henry the Sixth, King of England Edited by Joseph Stevenson
Grand Dukes of the West 